Karley is one of the people who inspired us to start The Spare Room Project, and we’re excited to feature her writing today! Her Everyday Vignette Project is also the reason we are hosting a Flash Fiction Writing Challenge for the last week of October, to get ready for NaNoWriMo. We asked her a few…

As a writer, Courtney Courtney Part of that voice is poetry. Writing poetry is often made difficult because the genre is so difficult to define: does it have to rhyme? And what is iambic pentameter anyway? Courtney found that a poem is essentially characterized by vivid and imaginative ideas conveyed in a way that lets the…

How a Career Writer used WordPress to Find Her Voice We at The Spare Room Project are proud to release our second artist interview feature, and this one’s for writers. Courtney’s writing blends prose and poetry to explore themes of life, love, Godliness, and optimism. She describes it as “a diary that I want other…

Take Your Creativity on the Go, Part 2 Creativity isn’t something you have to leave at home. This is something that Brian McCray knows very well. As an artist, he brings his roll of art supplies with him. He has found a way to bring his creativity on the go, and you can too! Check…

Everybody’s creative space looks a little bit different. For some, that space is as small as a roll-up pencil case and a sketch pad. Brian McCray is an artist and graphic designer keenly aware of the benefits of working whenever and wherever inspiration or necessity happens. He’s also a good friend of The Spare Room…